St. Landry democrat., 1887-10-08

the company to pay its hotel bills and get OF
OH town. Commissioner Little says in regar
TO the matter: I'VE did borrow 81, 900 from
the Central Pacific for that very purpose
We thought that nobody was more beholdel
TO the government than this road. Within
an hour after we had borrowed the none
we received notice from the Secretary of tn
treasury that money had been placed to on
credit and we paid the loan the next morn
ing"
A dispatch from Washington SAYS the gov
ernment organs in Madrid which deny tina
convention between the United States ant
SPAN, suspending discriminating duties, ha
peen signed IN Washington, are misinformed
the document has been signed by the Secre
tary OF State and the Spanish minister. Th,
proclamation of the President putting it into
effect will be issued soon.
E. G. Bower, county judge OF Dalla
county, Tex, has made the following an.
nouncement: after full and thorough
examination of the records of this council,
declare it to be my honest opinion that there
never has been legal corporation in East
Dallas, and that there never has been dollar
OF taxes legally collected" This opinion is
based on the fact that none of the legal re-
| qnlrements under the general incorporation
laws were complied with.
The Paris Temps prints telegram from Ed
lnal, saying: "A lieutenant of dragons, ac-
companied by gamekeeper, while shooting
at Raon-Sur-Plaine, near The frontier, was
tired at by invisible marksmen ih'German
territory. The gamekeeper was killed and
the heutenant's thigh bone was fractured.
Surgeons affirm that the shots were fired by
military, and say that the lieutenants thigh
Will have to be amputated. II is believed
that the shots were fired by customs Off
cials."
In Washington one of the clerks on duty
at the Ebbitt House received a telenhone
message from person representing himself
10 be MAJOR Peabody, wellknown perma-
nent guest OF the house, requesting the clerk
to pay the charges, s54 50, on an express
package containing suit of clothes,
which would soon arrive. The clerk paid
the money, and when Major Peabody came
IN to dinner it was discovered that
the telephone message and the package
were frauds. The clerk on duty then re-
called the fact that short time before he
mad received a telegram, written on regr-
lar delivery blank, signed by the proprietor
OF the hotel, who is out of the city, directing
the payment of S64 on a package. Shortly
after the telegram was received the expected
package put in an appearance and the s64 was
duly paid. Investigation revealed the fact
that this telegram, as well as the package
was also a fraud.
A posse was sent from the United States
marshals office in San Antonio Tex, a few
days ago, to capture gang of smugglers en-
camped >about fifty miles from Laredo A
battle ensued, resulting in the death of four
OF the smugglers and the capture of the
camp and a number of horses. The living
smugglers escaped by stampeding the horses
and following through the gap in the line,
taking refuge on the Mexican side None of
the officers were hurt.
In San Francisco an affidavit was filed by
the foreman of the grand jury in an applica-
tlOn for warrant to search house in the
Chinese quarter for certain documents in
which it is set forth that it was the belief of
the deponent that the papers would show
that Christopher Buckley, a well-known po-
lltlcal leader OF that city, had entered into an
agreement with the Chinese to secure the ac-
quittal fone of their countrymen by bribing
the jury. The warrant was issued and the
papers secured.
Eleven criminals were publicly whipped
in the Jail yard at New Castle, Del, upon
their conviction of theft. Three colored men
received ten lashes each, three whites ten
lashes each and two other whites each five |
lashes. Two other culprits, in addition to
receiving twenty lashes each, were placed |
in the pillory for an hour.
Two attempts recently made to wreck
trains on the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago
railroad have decided the company to employ
detectives.
The death order to the sheriff of Cook
county in the Anarchist cases has been
handed down by the Supreme Court of Hi
nois.
The Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association
0f North America in session at Indianapo-
is, elected the following officers Grand
master, James L. Monaghan, Chicago; vice
grand master, Frank Sweeny, Minneapolis;
grand secretary and treasurer, W. U. Sims
'ott, Chicago. Board of directors-Frank
Weelu, Chicago; E. M. Hutchinson, Lake;
J. L. Meliahan, Kensington, Ill. John NJ
Kelly, Fort Wayne; VIM. Broderick, In
lianapolis.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Tex, says it
8 reported from Point Isabel that the
chooners Romp and Maud B. broke loose
rom their moorings during a recent hurri-
ane and have not been heard from since;
lso that the lighthouse tender Mignonette
las not been heard from for several DAYS.
he broke loose from her moorings near
'adre-island lighthouse. The sound of her
og-horn was heard several times during the
arly morning hours. She had on board
ourteen men-crew and mechanics.
Word has been received at Prescott Ari-
onia Territory, from Tonte Basin, that a
eud fight occurred there in which Thomas
Joseph Ellingwood and man
AIMED Middleton were killed on the Graham
de, and George Newton and James
eWksbury on the Tewksbury side.
The President has appointed Francis M. &
lagan to be postmaster at Sprin gfeld O.,
place of James Johnson, sr., removed.
Kate Fraley, of Philadelphia, aged twenty
inc years, committed suicide by shooting !
erself in the right temple.